People v. Marshall CA4/2

FACTS

The victim is 4 feet 8 inches tall and weighs less than 90 pounds. On August 19,

2015, she was 21 years old and living out of her car, a teal, two-door 1995 Ford

Thunderbird. She parked for the night in an unfinished housing development in

Victorville and was awakened around 3:00 a.m. by flashlights and male voices telling her

she was trespassing and to step out of her car. There were two men standing outside her

car, a white man and a black man she later identified as Marshall. Thinking they were

police officers, she attempted to roll down her window but accidentally unlocked the car

doors instead. Marshall opened the driver’s side door and pulled her out of the car by her

arm. He told her she had to “pay up” because she was on his family’s land. Marshall’s

2 accomplice took her keys, phone, and wallet from her car and gave the phone’s battery to

Marshall so she couldn’t call the police.

The victim told the men all she had was her car and the belongings inside and

begged them not to take either. They told her they needed gas, and she said they could

siphon some from her car. They looked inside her gas tank and thoroughly searched the

rest of her car,…